demanded that those participating in the riots and guilty of robbery and
arson be pardoned; even this to our shame, we have granted. Yet
continuously you appear before us making new demands, continue rioting
and by numbers and threats seek to intimidate our body. You have so
terrorized the people that no business is transacted. Where will it all
end? What more do you want? How will business be restored and peace
brought about? What is to become of the city? Your vandalism destroys
the very property which furnishes your unions with employment; your
employers are powerless to continue in business or give the people work.
Why do you not disband and return to work? Your requests, reasonable and
unreasonable, have been granted. What better government can you expect
than the one you enjoy? It is of your own choosing and based upon the
fundamental principle that the supreme authority of the state is in the
majority of the people.'

"His suggestions, which were fair and conciliatory, might have
prevailed, except that I wanted greater concessions for our particular
union; and for that purpose frightened the weakening and consenting ones
who had participated in the riots to further violence by telling them
that to save themselves they must burn and loot yet more; must commit
other and greater wrongs and incite others to join them, saying:

"'If many commit wrongs few or none are punished; the petty criminal is
chastised, but the great one is rewarded. When the whole people suffer,
few seek vengeance. The government stands great and public wrongs with
more patience and resignation than private and little ones. If we
hesitate, or lose, or give ground, we will be punished; if we carry our
rebellion through to the extent of forcing a reorganization of the
government, we conquer and are glorious. Great power is acquired by
force and great wealth by fraud; the faithful in service remain in
service; and the reward of honesty is poverty; men, like fishes, feed
upon one another. To save yourselves you must continue to destroy and
excite the opposition to such fear for themselves and their property
that they will pardon your offences and look upon you as saviors when
you cease to oppress them. Shape your conduct by your desires; if you
wish to be masters, continue to oppress; if you wish to be banished and
punished as criminals, submit. What I suggest, though dangerous, is
under the circumstances not only expedient, but your only course,